Columbus Fiery Foods Festival is FREE for 2023

Not scheduled for 2024.

The Columbus Fiery Foods will heat up Genoa Park on the Scioto Mile in Downtown Columbus for two spicy days this summer!

The festival on August 26-27, 2023 showcases the spicy side of life with restaurants, hot sauce makers, salsa makers, and exhibitors from around the country.

Credit: Fiery Foods Festival

Festival-goers will satisfy their need for heat by sampling everything from BBQ to salsa to sweet treats with a kick. In addition to the Fiery Foods, the festival features artisans, crafters, food trucks, and entertainment.

Fiery Contests at the festival

Feeling competitive? Enter one of the contests held throughout the weekend including, but not limited to, Hot Pizza Eating, Hot Wing Eating, and Hot Pepper Eating.

Complete contest information is scheduled to be released in early August via Facebook @colsfieryfoodsfest.

Credit: Fiery Foods Festival

Tickets for Fiery Foods Festival are FREE!

This decision reflects the festival’s commitment to making this sizzling culinary extravaganza accessible to everyone in the community

Columbus Fiery Foods Festival Schedule

Saturday, August 26: 11 a.m.—8 p.m.
Sunday, August 27: Noon—6 p.m.

Participating vendors

Hot Sauce and Salsa Vendors– Angry Irishman LLC, Black Cap Hot Sauce, Chef Heatley’s Hot Pepper Farm, Double Comfort, Farmer Nate’s Sauce Co., Fartley Farms, Feel The Burn Hot Sauce, Flavor & Fire/Clamlube/Madstone, Gindo’s Spice of Life, Goodwood Brewing and Spirits, H&H 30 Second Salsa/Fiesta Snacks, Harmacy Hot Sauce Co, HELL’S KITCHEN HOT SAUCE, Jalapeno Joe’s, Lil D’s Provisions, Maletta’s Craft Hot Sauce, Mezclado Pepper Sauce, Mule Sauce by Sticker Mule, Ohi:yo Pepper Co., Petreaux’s Gourmet Hot Sauce, Ruthless Reaper Hot Sauce, Sauce Boss Gang, Shore Sauce, The Spice Trade Outpost, Underworld Feast, and Zia Chile Traders

Spicy Food Vendors– American Nut Company, Bruster’s Real Ice Cream of Reynoldsburg, Cate’s Steakhouse Catering, CHICKEN HEADS, Hot Chicken Takeover, Hot Dog Wally’s, Island Fusion, J-POPS, OH! Boba, Snow Sisters, Sweet P’s Handcrafted Ice Pops, The Cheesecake Castle LLC, and YumVillage

Genoa Park along the Scioto Mile in Downtown Columbus